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Kazhiyur Mannar Narayanan • May 2, 2002 


Respected All,

I am writing in continuation to Sri. Mani's comments.
If we analyze Gita Bhasya, It is clear that Swami
Ramanuja did not talk about ‘Surrendar’ as  a path
towards salvation.He clearly talks only about
'Bhakthi' as a tool for salvation.

As Sri Mani clearly pointed out, , Swami Alavandar
also  in his Gitartha Samraham,  states that 
‘sva-dharma-jnAna-vairAgya-sAdhya-bhakty-eka-gocaraH'


A question might comes to a reader, then why all our
elders talk about 'Prapatti' or 'surrender'
This doubt occurred to me when I was in India and
consulted elders.

They say that  When Sri Ramanuja wrote Gita Bhasya, he
had in his mind his contemporaries clearely
established  Gita in line with Visishtadwaita.  Since
Sri. Bhagavat Gita was an universal property any
person can go over and write on ‘Commentaries’ on
Gita, he preferred to teach the sacred sastra of
Saranagathi only at Srirangam to his disciples. Hence
he did not dwell much in to saragathi in Gita Bhasya.

This is the explanation I got from elders. 
I am not sure If this topic is already closed for
discussion. Since I came back to the US recently, I
took some time to read Bhakthi mails.

Dasan

KM Narayanan




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